Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 44
Then all men feared the Lord, For now they knew him a spirit, A spirit of terrible power.
Who acts: men · What happens: fear, know · To what, where: Lord
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 feared | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feared | nsubj |
| 4 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lord | det |
| 6 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 feared | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 8 | For | for | ADP | _ | 9 now | case |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 knew | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feared | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spirit | det |
| 14 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spirit | punct |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spirit | det |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spirit | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 power | case |
| 19 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 power | amod |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spirit | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | all men | the Lord | then | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | past | men = man | lord | a spirit obj | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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